Improved potato-rarer



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' eyes, which render itimpossible to pare them --ot a knife. rlhese vparts maybe constructed UNITED STATES] PATENT CFFICE.

HENRY UNDIHNVCCD, CF TOLLAND, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED 'POTATO-PARER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,725, dated August i2, 1864.

Be it known that 1,1IENRY UNDERWOOD, l of rRolland, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and 1mproved Knife for Paring Potatoes; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others'skilledin the art to make and use the san1e,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, said drawing representing a side view of my invention.

Many kinds of potatoes have deeply sunken with' an ordinary knife without great waste, as the blade ot' the latter cannot be inserted inthe small recesses, and much of the potato is therefore cut away all around the eyes inI removing the skin. y

My invention consists in providing an ordiuary'knife-blade with a bit or reanier at its end, so constructed that after theskin is entf, or pared from the body or principal part of the potato the bit or reamer may be inserted in the recesses or eyes, turned within them, and the exterior coat or skin within said recesses removed witlrthe greatest facility and without any waste.

A represents thehandle, and B the blade,

like lthose of an ordinaryv caseknife, and therefore do not require anyspecial deserlpl .-fornled At the end of the blade B' there is a bit or reainer, C, which may be formed by slit-ting the blade B obliquely at each edge, and then curling the blade at each side heyond the slits, so as to forni a conical` tube,

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one edge, c, ofv said tube slightly projecting beyond or farther outward than the other, and provided with a cutting-edge, the space between said edge a and theedge a. of the opposite sideot' the bent portion of the blade forming .a throat for the cutting-edge. The potato is tirst pared in the usual way, by means .of the blade B of the lsnil'e, and the bit or reanier 4C is then inserted in the recesses of the eyes, and by. turning the bit or reamer or the potato once or twice the recesses will be pared or the skin taken oft' all around the recesses, each recess of course being operated upon separately or one after the other. Thus. by this simple device potatoes may be pared very expeditiously and without any waste.

Having thus Y describedc my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A knife for paring potatoes, provided with a bit or rea-mer, C, at the end of a blade, B, substantially as herein set forth. l

HENRY UNDEuwoon.

Xf'titnesses WILLiAM KEITH, .losEeH BIsIIor. 

